No resolution to WSVN, DirecTV dispute

As the end of the business day arrived Monday, nothing had changed in the DirecTV-WSVN dispute and, from both sides, nothing is going on negotiation wise.

One caveat: these deals are often consummated quietly, off campus and behind closed doors. In all likelihood, the next significant news to be reported will be that a deal has been cut.

The easiest thing to do–as you can see from all the comments–is to tell someone else how to run their business. It’s not your money so it’s easy to play Solomon.

If I were DirecTV, I would do exactly what it is doing. Its deal with WSVN could be used as a model for hundreds of stations, so it has to be careful how much it offers.

If I were WSVN GM Robert Leider, I would do exactly what he is doing. This negotiation will be used when other contracts with Comcast, Dish, etc., come up. So he has to try to get the best deal he can.

I appreciate the anger caused by the missed football games and other programs. However, both entities rely to an extent on public goodwill. If you think they don’t care about you, you are not looking at this rationally as just another business deal.

Is your memory so short that you don’t remember that a few weeks ago, we were livid about missing Heat games?

You forgave and forgot. When this dispute is over, you will do it again, no matter how harsh your rhetoric is now.